Vladimir D. Marinin

Vladimir Danilovich Marinin (14 July 1890-17 October 1937) was a Red Army colonel during the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Vladimir Danilovich Marinin was born on 14 July 1890 in Babruysk, Belarus, Russian Empire, and he was from a family of peasants. Marinin was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, and he fought against the German Empire in the Baltics. He left the army in 1917 to join the Red Army during the Russian Revolution against Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and he rose to the rank of colonel during the fighting against the White Army in the Baltics during the Russian Civil War. Marinin took command of a force of Red Army riflemen which fought against the Baltic independence movements, leading to his defeat at the Battle of Rushigen in 1919, in which the German Freikorps defeated the Bolsheviks. Marinin would be forced to retreat in 1920 after a series of battles with the Baltic states, and he became a Soviet Lieutenant-General. On 17 October 1937, he was among the 45% of Soviet officers to be executed by Joseph Stalin during the "Great Purge", as he was a former czarist and one of the "old Bolsheviks".